Washing implement



Sept. 26, 1939. M, THENEL I 2,174,113

WASHING IMPLEMENT Filed Jan. 12, 1958 Jill/612502 flmrmz'enel MKW Patented Sept. 26, 1939 2,174,113

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,174,113 WASHING IMPLEMENT Max Thienel, Waiblingen, Wurttemberg, Germany Application January 12, 1938, Serial No. 184,647 In Germany September 3, 1936 1 Claim. (01. 15422) My invention relates to a washing implement ticularly efficient, is very simple in design and made of a suitable fabric which may serve for correspondingly inexpensive in manufacture. Washing and rubbing the back and may be con- All hard parts and materials including leather, verted into a washing glove. press buttons, etc., are avoided. The fold 3 en- 5 In the drawing aifixed to t is specification and ables the strip to be made rather narrow, while 5 forming part thereof an embodiment of my inaffording sufficient room for the hand introduced vention is illustrated diagrammatically by way into the device. It is adapted as a substitute for of example in a perspective view. sponges, bathing brushes, washing gloves and Referring to the drawing, I is a strip of about the like. towel length of an absorbent fabric, for instance I st ad of fixing th piece of fabric 2 on 10 of the double loop kind, and 2 is another piece paratively long strip, the middle part of the strip of the same or similar material, about the length l with the folded piece of fabric 2 fixed thereon Of a hand, fixed t0 the t p e p e e of may be fitted between two narrow ribbons 5. fa c 2 s Wider han t e s p I and folded at 3. I wish it to be understood that I do not desire It is fix d t t t p by s w v a u th to be limited to the exact details of construction 15 q e s f its p p y, about One half of its shown and described for obvious modifications le ng left free on one side so as to fo will occur to a person skilled in the art. an aperture 4 through which the hand can be I clai int oduc d to e pocket formed by the Strip A bath appliance consisting of two elongated a d t piece of fabric 2. pieces of, water absorbent material arranged in 20 If the strip 1! is gripped a either its middle superposition, one of said pieces comprising ex- D t y g t folded P e Of fabric 2 can be tensions projecting to both sides of the other, pulled back a forth in Contact With the back shorter piece, said pieces being connected with a d an be Us s m y as a bathing brush to each other along one long side, the two narrow rub a d W the back It can however also be sides and part of the second long side of said 25 us d a a Washing glove y inserting e hand shorter piece whereby to leave an opening in the t ro h e aperture In Order to Convert it second long side and forming a pocket extending into a particularly absorbent Washing glove, the over substantially the entire area of the shorter middle part carrying t e P ec Of fabric 2 may he piece, one of said pieces being substantially wider u d ns de O whereby the left hand p Of than the other one but formed with a longitudi- 30 he strip 1 is enclosed between the We pieces nal pleat normally reducing its effective width to and into the pocket then created the right hand th t of the narrower piece, whereby the pocket p Of e s p 5 c e inserted also, so that formed intermediate said pieces when turned inthe pocket is filled with absorbent fabric which id out with the extensions contained in the s pab e Of hol a ar e quant ty of Water, reversed pocket, will also allow the introduction 35 room being left for introducing the d nd of a hand and will serve as a washing glove of handling the device after the manner of a washhigh absorptive capacity.

ing glove. MAX THIENEL.

Obviously this implement, although being par- 

